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RICHMOND – Gov. Terry McAuliffe will roll out a new set of ethics proposals before the 2015 legislative session, developing them through a bipartisan commission that will also take a deep dive into long-standing traditions of Virginia government. Virginia's unique-in-the-country one-term limit for governors, allowing the state legislature to elect judges, partisan redistricting and the state's wide-open campaign finance laws – all of it's on the table, McAuliffe said Thursday. He said he wants his appointed commission to "break free from old ways of thinking and to ask the tough questions." The focus for the rest of this year will be on the...

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RICHMOND – Gov. Terry McAuliffe will roll out a new set of ethics proposals before the 2015 legislative session, developing them through a bipartisan commission that will also take a deep dive into long-standing traditions of Virginia government.
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Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie has dropped $400,000 into his campaign account, he told supporters Thursday in an email titled "All in."
"Here in Virginia, we have the unique opportunity, as we have throughout our nation’s...

Gloucester
Here is what you will find on on your ballot for Election Day, Nov. 4, in Gloucester, according to General Registrar Bobbi Morgan:
United States Senate
• Ed Gillespie - R
• Mark Warner - D
• Robert Sarvis - L
House of Representatives...

NEWPORT NEWS — With about two and a half weeks until Election Day, Virginia's U.S. Senate candidates paid a visit to Newport News for a forum to talk policy and politics at Christopher Newport University.
Quentin Kidd, the director of CNU's Wason...

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, and his Republican opponent, Ed Gillespie, released their third-quarter fundraising totals within the last 24 hours or so.
As you would expect, Warner has a lot more cash on hand with less than three weeks to election day....

RICHMOND – Former Gov. Bob McDonnell took the stand in his own defense Wednesday afternoon, speaking directly to jurors for the first time in the 18-day-old federal trial against him and his wife.
McDonnell eased into his testimony, laying out a short...

The Virginia Public Access Project has some interesting graphics this morning, comparing the average campaign costs in city elections around the state today.
By the way, go vote today. You'll find the Daily Press election guide - coverage and...

He's served as commissioner of welfare reform for former Gov. George Allen. He's helped raise funds for candidates across the political spectrum — Democrats and Republicans.
Walk into his office at Hampton University and you'll see photos of him with...

With their narrow majority back in hand, Senate Republicans re-worked the chamber's committees tonight, removing Democrats from chairmanships and putting Republicans in their places.
They made state Sen. Walter Stosch the body's president pro tem....

One of the last moving pieces in the financing of last year's high-drama politics has finally moved, a $200,000 payment five days ago from Gov. Terry McAuliffe's political action committee to his inauguration committee.
That sum allows the inaugural...

Gloucester election candidates filed campaign finance forms with the Voter Registrar's Office on April 15 for the period between Jan. 1 and March 31. Here's the information compiled by the Daily Press. The next round of campaign finance...

Some of our elected officials, apparently dissatisfied with the current level of public aggravation about the economic crisis, have decided to dump a can of paint onto the carpet as well.Both houses of Congress are nibbling around the edges of the...

Wisconsin prosecutors on Tuesday are asking a federal appeals court to allow them to restart an investigation into possible illegal coordination between Governor Scott Walker's campaign and special interest groups during elections in 2011 and 2012. The...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned an earlier ruling that had halted an investigation in Wisconsin into possible illegal coordination between Governor Scott Walker's campaign and special interest groups in 2011 and 2012 elections.
A...

Everything you need to know about Beltway nepotism, corporate cronyism and corruption can be found in the biography of Robert Hunter Biden.
Where are the Occupy Wall Street rabble-rousers and enemies of elitist privilege when you need them? Straining...

Leaders from the G20 group of nations agreed on Sunday to boost flagging global growth, tackle climate change and crack down on tax avoidance but ties between the West and Russia plummeted to a new low over the crisis in Ukraine.Russian President Vladimir...

The Kentucky Opportunity Coalition, a conservative political nonprofit group, wasn’t very busy before last year. It didn’t raise or spend a single dollar in all of 2012. When the year ended, it had just $904 in its bank account.
But its fortunes...

There are 118 Illinois House seats on the ballot Tuesday, but for Republicans, the magic number is one.
The GOP knows it's highly unlikely it will catch a tidal wave and sweep Speaker Michael Madigan out of power. But all the House Republicans need to do...

With polls tight and pre-election tensions tighter, Democrat Pat Quinn and Republican Bruce Rauner are now turning to the final, furious and perhaps most critical phase of their record-setting $96 million battle for governor: GOTV.
That may sound like...

For months, a billion-dollar ad blitz has flooded the airwaves here and in other closely contested states leading up to Tuesday's midterm election, another sign that the nation has entered a new era in political spending driven less by candidates and more...